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Gantry cranes were washed away, silt and boulders jammed the headworks, and floodwaters entered the power house, knocking the plant offline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Workers clearing silt from the flood-struck region say they occasionally come across personal belongings, including gold jewellery.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

However, significant damage has been caused to the highway, with mud, silt, debris and other obstructions continuing to block access, and also ongoing safety concerns relating to both the road and the surrounding embankments.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Volunteers are hoping to restore a seaside town's brook to its former glory by removing silt build-ups.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

A riverboat’s paddlewheel churned above me, swirling the silt around.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Premier Marinas, which owns Brighton Marina, has said dredging, which involves removing natural silts that settle in the marina basin, is needed to ensure safe navigation for boats.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

The silts and sand are a "valuable local resource" that contractors and local governments use as fill material in residential and industrial projects, the Army Corps said.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 17, 2019

About 70% of the hull has survived, well-preserved in the Nile silts.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2019

Scientists warn that any efforts to repair Wular will be futile unless the plan also deals with areas far upstream, where lake-clogging soil and silts are still being loosed from newly deforested lands.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

But Hess’s readings showed that the ocean floor offered anything but the gooey smoothness of ancient silts.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The system is also 70% silted or clogged after over a century of use, Mr Bonoan told news outlet ABS-CBN News.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

When the port silted up, Bladensburg, a few miles downriver, was chartered in 1742 as the new port.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

But never have the lakes been silted as they are today,” says Simiyu.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

Over the centuries, it fell into disrepair, becoming silted up from falling leaves and rotting tree roots.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020

Ashes drifted into the hollow places in my bones and silted up my brainpan.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

"Slowly but surely, care provision is silting up as a result of either higher levels of demand or higher levels of sickness," he says.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2022

Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

Thanks to silting and reclamation in the tidal Liffey, Usher’s Island itself has for centuries been joined to the mainland.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2021

But he fears greater consequences if silting continues.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2018

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan